Of the 156 false distress calls Coast Guard members in the Great Lakes District received this fiscal year, only three of them were confirmed to be hoaxes.
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued an injured sailor after his vessel ran aground on Lake Huron south of Calcite, prompting an overnight response involving a rescue boat, helicopter crew, and rescue swimmer.
Prosecutors have charged the chief engineer of the cargo ship Dali in connection with the 2024 collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge.
The U.S. Coast Guard has ended its latest search for a Lenawee County woman who disappeared during a sailing trip in the Bahamas, though the investigation into her disappearance remains active.
The death toll from the Trump administration’s monthslong series of strikes on suspected drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean has risen to at least 199 people after survivors of recent attacks weren't found.
U.S.-flag shipping on the Great Lakes lost a total of 1,953 hours or 82 ship days due to inadequate icebreaking.
The wreckage of a U.S. Coast Guard ship lost in a deadly attack more than a century ago, during World War I, was been discovered off the coast of England.
Authorities say they’ve suspended the search for missing five crew members of a cargo ship that overturned near the Northern Mariana Islands during a typhoon in the Pacific Ocean.
Authorities have found the body of one of the six missing crew members from a cargo ship that overturned near the Northern Mariana Islands during a typhoon.
Searchers from several countries are scouring the Pacific near the Northern Mariana Islands for six crew members from a cargo ship that overturned during a typhoon that tore through the U.S. territory.
The U.S. Coast Guard says an airplane search crew has spotted an overturned ship matching the description of a cargo vessel that went missing with six people on board near the western Pacific territory of Saipan.
The U.S. military says it blew up two boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
A U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer has died after being injured while on a medical evacuation mission off the Washington coast.
The U.S. Coast Guard has announced that the search for survivors on a commercial fishing vessel that sank off the coast of Massachusetts with seven aboard has been suspended.
The Coast Guard said it's still searching for people who had jumped off alleged drug-smuggling boats when the U.S. military attacked them days earlier.
Coast Guard crews and Great Lakes mariners partnered to conduct a challenging helicopter maneuver during training day on Lake Michigan.
A U.S. senator says she's pausing the nomination for the top Coast Guard job because leaders appeared to have “backtracked” on a commitment to ensure that swastikas and nooses are considered hate symbols and prohibited from being displayed.
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz wants restrictions on military flights approved before government funding runs out at the end of next month to prevent another midair collision like the one near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people in January.
Two senators who lead a bipartisan antisemitism task force say they want more information from the U.S. Coast Guard about its policy regarding displays of swastikas, nooses or other hate symbols.
The U.S. Coast Guard has released a new, firmer policy addressing the display of hate symbols like swastikas and nooses just hours after it was publicly revealed that it made plans to describe them as “potentially divisive” — a term that prompted outcry from lawmakers and advocates.
President Donald Trump has justified American military strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs by saying the longtime U.S. strategy of interdicting such vessels has been a major failure.
Law enforcement officers have fired shots at a vehicle that backed into a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area that had been the site of protests against federal immigration agents.
Audio recordings released by the Coast Guard capture the distress of a family who was rescued two days after their boat caught fire and sank, forcing them to swim to a private island.
The U.S. Coast Guard has announced it is providing a base for U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in the San Francisco area.
Officials in Alaska are rushing to find housing for people from tiny coastal villages devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong.
The United States has long relied on the Coast Guard and allies to interdict drug vessels through arrests and prosecutions at sea.
The annual Port Huron Float down is happening on Sunday, and U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards are warning the risks for those participating in the event.
President Donald Trump's recent actions have sparked debate over the Posse Comitatus Act, a law from 1878 that limits military involvement in domestic affairs.
Thousands are expected to head to the St. Clair River on Sunday for the annual Port Huron Float Down.
The U.S. Coast Guard says rotten wood and poor inspections appear to have played roles in the collapse of the mast of a historic Maine schooner in an accident that killed one person and injured several others.
A Senate committee has advanced the nomination of President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
An initial report finds none of the eight people killed when a boat capsized on Lake Tahoe last month were wearing life vests.
More troubles for the cargo ship that caught fire earlier this month off Alaska's Aleutian Island chain.
Officials say six people were confirmed dead and two others were missing after a boat capsized on Lake Tahoe in California.
A salvage team is expected to arrive early next week at the scene of a cargo ship that was carrying about 3,000 vehicles to Mexico when it caught fire in waters off Alaska’s Aleutian island chain.
All crew members are safe after a fire broke out aboard a cargo ship south of Alaska's Adak Island.
Four flares have been found after they were missing in Lake Michigan after a military exercise, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for five people missing after a boat capsized off Florida's Atlantic Coast during what was suspected of being a failed smuggling attempt.
Authorities are focusing on the wreckage of a plane that crashed off western Alaska as they try to determine what caused the small commuter aircraft to go down in the icy Bering Sea, killing 10 people.
Authorities say the remains of all 10 people killed when their small plane crashed into ice on the Bering Sea have been recovered.
Authorities say a small commuter plane that crashed in western Alaska on its way to the hub community of Nome has been located on sea ice and all 10 on board are dead.
U.S. flags at President-elect Donald Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club are back to flying at full height.
Persistent high surf and flooding threats along California's coast have residents on high alert a day after a major storm was blamed for one man's death and the partial collapse of a pier.
The operator of an experimental submersible that imploded while seeking out the sunken Titanic was either putting profits over safety or pushing humankind’s boundaries.
A paid passenger on an expedition to the Titanic with the company that owned the Titan submersible testified before a U.S. Coast Guard investigatory panel Friday that the mission he took part in was aborted due to an apparent mechanical failure.
The scientific director for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage testified that the sub had malfunctioned just prior to the fatal dive.
Former employees of the company that owned an experimental submersible that imploded on its way to the wreck of the Titanic are scheduled to testify before a Coast Guard investigatory board.
An 83-foot motor boat is going to be scrapped that was one of the first refrigerated sardine carriers during the heyday of Maine’s booming industry.
The grueling basic training for fledgling cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, known as swab summer, is being revamped this year in light of a sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the prestigious Connecticut service academy.
Officials say a U.S. Coast Guard cutter on routine patrol south of Alaska's Aleutian Islands came across a Russian ship in international waters but within the U.S. exclusive economic zone.
Security planners for the Republican National Convention have had to contend with the winding river that snakes through downtown Milwaukee and near the Fiserv Center convention site.
The owner and founder of the website Barstool Sports lost control of a boat off Nantucket before being rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard.
The deadly implosion of an experimental submersible en route to the deep-sea grave of the Titanic last June has not dulled the desire for ocean exploration.
The U.S. Coast Guard says a freighter in Lake Superior has hit something underwater and started taking on water.
Local 4 was given a behind-the-scenes look at how the U.S. Coast Guard and the Detroit Police Dive Team get prepared for saving lives on the water.
The U.S. Coast Guard says three men stranded on an uninhabited Pacific atoll survived for over a week before being rescued.
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order and created a federal rule aimed at better securing the nation’s ports from potential cyberattacks.
The U.S. Coast Guard is embarking on one of its most unique missions yet in Puget Sound: a pilot program to alert vessels of whale sightings.
A routine day of inspecting shipping containers at the Port of Houston turned into something extraordinary when U.S. Coast Guard officer Ryan McMahon and his team heard barking coming from inside one of the thousands of containers.
Federal investigators are looking into a dockside cargo ship fire that killed two New Jersey firefighters at Port Newark.
The U.S. Coast Guard says a lithium-ion battery fire on a cargo ship is out after days of burning off the coast of Alaska.
The “Christmas Tree Ship” stopped on its way to Chicago to return an anchor unintentionally recovered from a Lake Michigan shipwreck.
A survivor of the deadly landslide in Alaska last week says the force of the impact threw her around like a "piece of weightless popcorn."
A massive freighter that ran aground in the Detroit River on Monday is expected to be freed Tuesday with the help of multiple tugboats, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
As much as 1.1 million gallons of oil may have been discharged into the Gulf of Mexico from a pipeline system off Louisiana’s southeast coast.
The Coast Guard says it has recovered remaining debris, including presumed human remains, from a submersible that imploded in June on its way to explore the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five onboard.
U.S. investigators have confirmed that a mechanical issue caused the seaplane crash that killed 10 people off an island in Washington state last year.
A top elected Republican in Maine says he's glad to be alive after a giant wave overturned his lobster boat ahead of the remnants of Hurricane Lee.
The U.S. Coast Guard says it rescued a 64-year-old man whose sailboat became disabled and who spent three days stranded on an island in the Bahamas.
A boater who had been missing for more than a day and a half was rescued off the Florida coast in a half-submerged boat.
The U.S. Coast Guard is apologizing for not taking “appropriate action” years ago when it failed to adequately handle cases of sexual assault and harassment at the service’s Connecticut academy.
An international group of agencies is investigating what may have caused a submersible to implode while carrying five people to the Titanic wreckage.
The U.S. Coast Guard said Sunday it is leading an investigation into the loss of the Titan submersible that was carrying five people to the Titanic, to determine what caused it to implode.
In recent days, the massive hunt for a submersible vehicle lost during a north Atlantic descent to explore the wreckage of the Titanic has refocused attention on the conundrum: who should pay for the sweeping search.
The wrecks of the Titanic and the Titan sit on the ocean floor, separated by 1,600 feet and 111 years of history.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says it is investigating into the loss of the Titan submersible and has been speaking with those who traveled on Titan’s mothership, the Polar Prince.
The cost of the unprecedented search for the missing Titan submersible will easily stretch into the millions of dollars.